Forthcoming Development Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Agriculture and a Changing Environment in Northeastern India

   Edited by Sumi Krishna

   Series: Transition in Northeastern India

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge India
2. The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment

   Edited by Andrew Holden, David Fennell

   The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies inherent to tourism’s relationship with nature, especially pertinent at a time of major re-evaluation of our relationship with the environment as a consequence of the environmental...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

   Edited by Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Insider Trading in Developing Jurisdictions

   Achieving an effective regulatory regime

   By Wunmi Bewaji

   The book examines the regulation of insider dealing in the developed jurisdictions, using three of the G7 countries as guides with the aim of knowing how they have regulated insider trading and what lessons can be learnt from their failures and achievements. It looks at regulatory regimes in...

   To Be Published June 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Neoliberalism and the Law in Post Communist Transition

   The Evolving Role of Law in Russia’s Transition to Capitalism

   By Ioannis Glinavos

   This work examines ideas about the role of law and legal reform in the creation of market economies, focusing on the process of post communist transition in Russia. Processes of transition in Russia were guided by a set of very specific neoliberal ideas about the nature of markets and capitalism,...

   To Be Published June 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Development Through Bricolage

   Rethinking Institutions for Natural Resource Management

   By Frances Cleaver

   Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water User Associations, Irrigation Committees, Forest Management Councils) not work as planners intended?...

   To Be Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Gender, Development and Environmental Governance

   Theorizing Connections

   By Seema Arora-Jonsson

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book...

   To Be Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond

   Edited by Daniel Bach, Mamoudou Gazibo

   Series: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations

   Neopatrimonialism, a system whereby rulers use state resources for personal benefit and to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population, is central to any teaching or conceptualisation of contemporary African politics. This book is a theoretical and comparative study of neopatrimonialism...

   To Be Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. Pastoralism and Development in Africa

   Dynamic Change at the Margins

   Edited by Andy Catley, Jeremy Lind, Ian Scoones

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability Series

   Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to...

   To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Global South to the Rescue

    Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

    Edited by Paul Amar

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order – the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military...

    To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge